We won Best Animation for “Bite Sized Love” (see it in our earlier post) for the 48Hours Furious Filmmaking Challenge (I suspect it’s the regional award), so if you’re in New Zealand you might be able to see it on TV next Thursday evening (8.30pm, June 27th, C4), if it gets the national Best Animation award. Fingers crossed.

Well, at least my interview with them might come up, but don’t expect too much, sleep deprivation may have an impact on my ability to speak properly in front of the camera.

On the other front, BitFilm voting is able to end in a few days, so this is the last chance to vote for our nominated Parking Warden entry, so Let’s get Voting!!

Even though 48Hours’ results have been announced, I got an email yesterday from Steve the Christchurch’s 48 manager, that our team have won the best animation category in Christchurch, and so we are still in contention for the nation-wide animation award. It’s great news, though I don’t know, I have a sneaking suspicion that this is largely due to the fact that our team is the only animation team in Christchurch. Anyway, still feel quite lucky.

On other fronts, the development of ZenCub3d still goes on, even though losing some traction due to the random happens in entrepreneurs’ lives in the last month or so. We have identified the cause of a few mysterious bugs that have eluded us for a while, so the debugging team is dispatched, fully equipped and on their way. The next release mainly focuses on bug fixing, so not much changes in terms of features is expected. Oh yeah, curved waypoints have been in our development branch for a while, so if it reaches a stable enough status you guys might see it in the next release. We’ll certainly post some videos on it when it’s ready.

Lastly, votely on BitFilm is slowly coming to an end. I got an email from them inviting me to attending the award ceremony in Hamburg, and as much as I ‘LOVE’ taking 40+ hour flights to Europe, I had to turn it down since alot of ThinkingCactus internal stuff is happening this half of the year. But nevertheless, have a look at our nominated entry and consider voting for us if you think we deserve it

Granted, I don’t drive a Humvee, or style a cornrow hair cut, and even the warden was an old guy who didn’t know martial arts(but then again, never under-estimate someone with a Chuck Norris-style mustache), but I indeed wasn’t able to stop the parking warden from giving me a ticket, right in front of me.

Now I remember why we made the Parking Warden video in the first place…

One a side note, our parking warden video was nominated for the BitFilm Festival, in the Machinima Category, and for that reason I’ll be going to Stuttgart, Germany, WooHoo~

I’ll be leaving on Thursday and I’ll follow up on the trip on this blog.